This weekend my husband and I traveled to Chicago to watch our daughter perform at the Heritage Music Festival with her show choir and jazz choir. It was such a treat for us as when the trip was announced in early fall we did not think we would be able to go but as luck would have it, we were able and had a wonderful time!
There were actually 4 groups that performed from our high school, Walsh Jesuit, and they were the Harmony Gold Show Choir, the jazz choir, concert choir and the madrigals. This is not so much a competition as it is a learning experience/workshop. There were 3 adjudicators and after each performance, one of the adjudicators went up on stage to work with th kids, giving them pointers on tone, diction, microphone use and placement, and expression, to name a few. For all 4 performances, our kids received silver trophies and one of our vocal soloists was awarded a gold for her solo performance with the madrigals.
On Friday night we saw an absolutely fabulous performance of Mary Poppins at the Cadillac Palace theater, preceded by a wonderdul dinner at McCormick and Schmick's. Saturday we went to the Medieval Times for the show and afterwards, the awards ceremony. It was a little different to eat our food without utensils and mostly in the dark, but we still had fun and the kids had a blast.
On Sunday we attended Mass and I mention this because the priest had a wonderful homily that I think deviated from what he was going to say when he saw teenagers taking over the first 2 pews in the church. He spoke of the importance of walking head on into your fears, but hand in hand with Christ and if we do that, we will be victorious over that fear. He also told them that they should "text" God as often as they do each other, because God is always listening, his phone is always on and He will always answer your text.
Aside from the fact that I thought I might die in a car accident in downtown Chicago, it was great trip. Driving in downtown Chicago is not for the faint of heart and I'm glad my husband was driving. But it's an incredible city, vibrant and full of life and I am glad we were able to experience it.
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Barb, this is a wonderful story about your daughters talents and your trip to Chicago (one of my favorite big cities). The priests sermon included words to the teenagers that they can use in real life! What an up to date priest to give them something like that to live by! Heartwarming!
Caren, He was so warm and welcoming..it was as if most of the time he was speaking only to them.